I.B. George Quotes

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

Take calculated risks.

All glory is fleeting.

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

Hope that, in future, all is well, everyone eats free, no one must work, all just sit around feeling love for one another.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

Market prices are always wrong.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.